Travel Short Stories

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features a bunch of bizarre and strange tales of the paranormal that can happen to you in your travels. Strange things do happen, and mostly they are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys.

Ophelia's husband disappears at the most inopportune times. After 10 years, she's not sure why she puts up with it, other than the fact that she's loved him since she first saw him in college, before the physics experiment that started Will involuntarily sliding through time. And there's nothing anyone can do about it. Or is there?

Take a town full of West Virginia coal miners, 17th century nobility, one of the longest and bloodiest wars in history, d'Artagnan (without the three musketeers), Blaise Pascal, Rene Decartes, Galileo, Oliver Cromwell and Gustav II Adolph. Shake well and simmer for thirteen years. Eric Flint's world of 1632 is an amazing and complex alternate history universe that split off from ours one spring day in 2000 and 1631. The Grantville Singles provide listeners with the opportunity to sample some of our favorite stories from the semi-monthly magazine devoted to the series, The Grantville Gazette. We hope you enjoy them.

Fashion shifts into fast-forward for Beverly Hills designer Sophie Duchamp one fateful summer day. "Pourquoi?", you ask. It's the day that her four future selves, each carrying a stolen time device, show up in her studio! But will Sophie's destiny - and humanity's future, for that matter - be irrevocably changed by what they tell her?

Worlds collide when a time traveling New York mobster travels to ancient Egypt, before the Great Pyramids are constructed. He brings the Pharaoh many small, insignificant, unassuming, modern items like an iPod, a six-pack of beer, and the Encyclopedia entry "How the Great Pyramids were really built". Does he change the course of history, or does he set the present course while becoming an Egyptian God?

This quirky, futuristic romp into extreme consumer activism pits time-traveling sentient giraffes and lions against each other in a society where corporations have total control. Who says crime doesn't pay?

In the future, the war between men has ended; but the battle for Earth's survival has just begun. Dr. Tennyson Chaucer and the crew of the Daedalus must test his theory and slip their earthly bounds, but has mankind's reach exceeded its grasp?

Styled like a classic drive-in double feature, this pair of tales strives to evoke that beloved era and its associated feelgood emotions while still thrilling and frightening those willing to take the rides. Both stories are family-style entertainment with little foul language and virtually no "adult situations" - in other words, sheer all-ages fun.

When Clare picks up an odd stone, she never expects to be...transported? Hundreds of years in the past and thousands of miles away, Clare is lost. Will her new friends Andrew and Harold Marshall help her to find the way back, even if they do not believe her? And more importantly, can she trust these strangers?

Bree Smith’s son, Adam, is dying. Bree is out of money and out of hope when a dishevelled young man, Bateman, approaches her with a proven cure. There’s only one catch: Bree will need to collect it…from the future. The cost? Just return with a small package for Bateman. Once in the future, Bree faces the terrible consequences of the deal she has struck. She must make a final choice: save her son or save humanity? Conceived by terminal cancer patient, Joshua Castle, and brought to print, posthumously, by his mother, Penny, Cure is fast-paced and tense.

"Travel by Wire!" was Arthur C. Clarke's first published story. It appeared in the December 1937 issue of Amateur Science Fiction Stories. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

This love story for nerds initially appeared in the author's anthology Elemental Tales and Other Unusual Adventures.

There's a girl in Tim's room that claims she's from the future. Should he believe her? A short story about future glory.

Bertram Bile wasn’t always like this. At primary school, he had friends, kind teachers, and great grades. But everything changed when he started his new school. His parents split up, his dad went missing, and his mum lost her job. Now, he’s bullied by his classmate, Angus, and his evil geography teacher, Miss Petrenko. His dad had been Miss Petrenko’s first love, but she never forgave him for dumping her for Bertram’s mum when they were kids themselves. Bertram feels sure that Miss Petrenko knows more about his dad’s disappearance than she’s letting on.

Annie Acorn Audio is pleased to present Time Will Tell, written by Annie Acorn and narrated by Daniel McColly. "Someone, somewhere, help me bring them back," Frank Jamison sobs into the bed pillow clutched in his arms. His wife is dead, and his teenage son lies like a vegetable in a hospital ward, but the being who answers his desperate cry for help isn't exactly what he would've expected.

A Brother's Betrayal is a poem about a brother failing to show compassion to his sister while she faces a cruel and unjust trial.